Week5- Project Underway

We decided to pursue an interactive installation that would have the concepts of growing flowers as your body moved. The plan was to use color tracking to track the motion of the body part, in this case a hand, and then render out movies so that Max would call on them and play the movie to display the flower.

The main issue we foresee is that our group's way of thinking is just to use another button interface, meaning we're trying to convert the body into just being another button input. This was actually the wrong way of thinking about it.

After speaking with Greg we understood that instead we must try to utilize motion to get the desired output and steer away from the 'button' interface idea we've become accustomed to in our daily lives.


Just like this toaster, we had to steer clear of buttons :)

The coding for this seems to be a bit challenging. We learned how to work with movie files in class but for some reason the whole workflow of Max is a bit confusing to me. I guess I've never been much of a programmer. Even as a small child.